WATERBURY — Police say they arrested a man suspected of being a heroin trafficker who crashed into an unmarked police cruiser at a car wash on South Main Street Thursday night.

Officers seized a loaded handgun, heroin, crack cocaine and prescription pills from a car they say was being driven by Sergio Martinez, a 35-year-old felon with a criminal history that dates back to the late 1990s.

A joint investigation by the Vice and Intelligence Division, Street Crimes Unit and a statewide narcotics task force showed that Martinez made several heroin sales this month, according to police.

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